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标题：What Kind of Contact is Needed to Promote Integration? A Study with Primary School Teachers
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作者：Daniela Damigella ; Daniela Damigella ; Orazio Licciardello 等
期刊名称：Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences
印刷版ISSN：1877-0428
出版年度：2014
卷号：141
页码：1121-1126
DOI：10.1016/j.sbspro.2014.05.189
语种：English
出版社：Elsevier
摘要：Contemporary multiethnic contexts lead to focus on the processes that are at the basis of integration and of mutual respect and social recognition. Simple contact is not a guarantee of harmonious intergroup relationships, but it could be if inspired by the Contact Hypothesis (Allport, 1954) and if mediated by empathy (Batson et alii, 1997; Stephan & Finlay, 1999; Voci & Hewstone, 2007). Focusing on school as a ‘potential place’ to a positive contact, teachers’ attitudes become relevant. This issue involves the need of professional training for teachers based on “how to be” in addition to the “know”, questioning, first, themselves (Licciardello, 2001, p.136).The aim of our study was to explore the attitudes that a group of primary school teachers has on migration processes and on North-African immigrants. Our hypothesis is that empathy is associated with a reduction of prejudices and that the EU innovative intercultural Comenius project affects the representations of those teachers involved in it in terms of attitudes more oriented to integration. Results seem to delineate a complex framework. Even though our sample expresses positive attitudes towards immigrants, on an implicit level an aversive form of racism (Dovidio & Gaertner, 2000) seems to emerge. The data also seem confirm the first hypothesis and not the second.
关键词：Promote;integration;social recognition